What manga has taught me about Japanese culture...

- Everyone has a childhood friend of the opposite gender who is madly in love with them.- When someone gets sick with a cold or fever, all their friends drop everything and immediately nurse them back to health.- Japanese people have a terrible sense of balance and often fall on their asses, usually in embarrassing predicaments.- The Ferris Wheel is the single most important activity in the course of a relationship. The second most important? Fireworks at a festival.

When a guy trips, there's a great chance he will either see panties or end up with his face on melon boobs.

When a girl trips, she will most likely lose her first kiss.

Doesn't matter if the guy is plain, as long as he's nice, he'll be surrounded by gorgeous girls.

^Ditto for the girl too.

If you want to meet a delinquent hot guy, put a puppy in a cardboard box, check the weather forecast for rain, and if it will rain, abandon the poor puppy on the street. The said guy would pick the puppy up and show you how much of a nice guy he is.

- When someone gets sick with a cold or fever, all their friends drop everything and immediately nurse them back to health.

Related - situations where you are guaranteed to catch a really bad cold/flu:1. if you go outside even for a moment when slightly inadequately dressed on a cold day2. if you don't immediately blow dry your hair after a shower or bathI'm sure there are more.

Also, if a girl is out in the wilderness alone (a forest, usually) some awful accident will occur, usually falling down a steep hill/low cliff, or twisting her ankle.

Edit: also, ugly/plain girls will undoubtedly become irresistable to all men if they just put on nice clothes & make-up.

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People, especially high school students can easily get other students addresses through their teacher.

When someone takes a day off from school, there's at least one person bringing in their homework to their house.

Going to a goukon and karaoke is a normal thing. (This is quite shocking to me because karaoke's expensive here in London!)

I would argue none of these three things are clichés or unrealistic. I believe all are ordinary occurrences/practices in Japan. The price of karaoke in London has nothing to do with how much it costs in Japan.

-A light-weight drinker in Japan will pass out after consuming a thimble-full of alcohol, regardless of it's proof. That, or they'll immediately begin slurring their words whilst ripping off their clothing in an effort to cure their new-found depravity.

- Rain is cold in Japan. If you're in the rain without an umbrella, you will get cold. If you get cold, you will get a cold.

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- Everyone has a childhood friend of the opposite gender who is madly in love with them.

This person who already has a gorgeous/handsome childhood friend of the opposite sex, strangely, is always complaining that they don't know how to talk to the opposite sex.

- In Japan, if you're not an F-cup, you're an AA-cup. There is no in between.

- You will always coincidentally run into your friends/crush when you go outside despite living in the largest metropolis in the world. (assuming most settings are Tokyo based)

- Abstaining from a single meal will cause a Japanese person to collapse from malnutrition.

- Do not run with scissors is a world-wide rule. Do not run with a container of creamy white liquid, however, is Japan only. Failure to comply will result in bukkake. -A mayonnaise bukkake will always cover you with more mayo than was even in the container to begin with.

- Your little sister is wet for you. Especially when she claims to hate you.

- In Japan, if you're not an F-cup, you're an AA-cup. There is no in between.

Haha yeah, that's a good one.

You can sort of tell what kind of manga people read just by what they've "learned".

Some more:- People who get wet from the rain absolutely must take a shower and change their clothes regardless of where they are.- All hotdog weiners in bento lunches are cut in the shape of octopuses.- Getting chocolate on Valentine's day is tantamount to winning the lottery.- If you catch the attention of anyone in an authority position (class rep, stuco prez, etc.), they will hound you relentlessly day after day until you enter a relationship with them.- Every school building has an accessible rooftop where lunchgoers gather and eat. (This one may actually be true, I dunno...)